Freenode has officially become part of PIA (Private Internet Access). Freenode has been supported by PIA for the last couple years, but on April 12, Freenode announced they will become part of the PIA family. Freenode has provided services to open source software and other projects for the last 18 years. Freenode will continue to operate as a non-profit, though will now be legally owned by PIA. PIA is a VPN service that provides privacy protection by giving you an anonymous IP.

Prettier is a javascript source code beautifier that uses your code’s AST to provide features that other beautifiers can’t. Prettier has released version 1.0 and has over 100,000 npm downloads monthly. Check out the announcement for Prettier 1.0 and watch it in action.

Intel Labs has open sourced the Haskell Research Compiler. Haskell is a functional programming language that is statically typed and purely functional. You can read more about the Haskell Research Compiler or learn about how it fits in ‘The Functional Language Research Compiler’ by looking at it’s documentation. Intel Labs is not actively working on this project at the moment.

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